Web2/Web3 developer and builder of grassroots decentralized culture and governance. I’m not a maximalist of any kind, but I am trying to minimize life regret.
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I was actually at Network School in January for three weeks. My first day there, I whipped up a basic app where you can plug in your location, priorities, and budget, and you’d get an AI-generated PDF pointing you to all the resources you’d need to start your own society-as-a-service.
Last night I felt motivated to tidy it up a little bit to share here. It’s not without its bugs since this was a quick thing, but hopefully it’ll be of use to some folks.
https://society-as-a-service-planner.replit.app
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Finally deleted Neynar’s Farcaster from my phone, better late than never I guess.
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I learned today I can’t actually hold a reverse plank. Time to begin fixing that.
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Sunglasses cause there’s no way in hell I’m making eye contact with y’all while eating a hot dog
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I’m starting to grasp that there is a nontrivial number of regular people who legitimately could not care less about the well-being of civilization.
I’m not talking about anarcho-primitivists or people who feel like they’ve been shafted somehow by modern society. I’m talking about otherwise seemingly normal and healthy human beings who for one reason or another believe their lives would be better without civilization and quietly wish for its downfall.
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I GOT MY FIRST PAID USER TODAY! I built an AS2 server testing tool (pharma supply chain stuff, exchanging purchase transaction files) and someone signed up and bought a pro membership!
I’m a software guy by trade so the actual idea validation/user acquisition/marketing/outreach is still really new to me.
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Anyone who believes that what happened to school in Malaysia has any kind of long-term impact on the development of network states (or some new apex societal structure akin to them) has no clue what network states actually are.
Balaji’s definition and ideas have popularized 1) that modern technology makes it possible to build new kinds of supranational coordinated entities, and 2) a specific but probably intentionally narrow idea of how such an entity *could* begin and evolve. However, most people who encountered this idea placed much more focus on 2 than on 1.
Whether people like it or not, it’s not just “the west is declining”, but nation states in general are losing cultural and ideological (and soon more types) of influence because of modern technological developments. By its nature, this technology, will eventually enable *some* kind of post-nation state world. But Balaji’s implementation is only one way to go about it.
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